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Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution

A defence of the American Revolution by one of its key supporters in Britain, along with a letter by Turgot and a short essay by Mathon de la Cour (also known as Fortuné Ricard).

Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of Making it a Benefit to the World. To which is added, a Letter from M. Turgot, late Comptroller-General of the Finances of France: with an Appendix, containing a Translation of the Will of M. Fortuné Ricard, lately published in France (London: T. Cadell, 1785).

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Author: Richard Price
Author: Charles-Joseph Mathon de La Cour (Fortuné Ricard)
Author: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

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CONTENTS.
ADVERTISEMENT.
OBSERVATIONS, c.
Of the Importance of the Revolution which has established the Independence of the United States.
Of the Means of promoting human Improvement and Happiness in the United States.—And first, of Public Debts.
Of Peace, And the Means of perpetuating it.
Of Liberty.
Of Liberty of Discussion.
Of Liberty of Conscience, and Civil Establishments of Religion.
Of Education.
Of the Dangers to which the American States are exposed.
Of Debts and Internal Wars.
Of an unequal Distribution of Property.
Of Trade, Banks, and Paper Credit.
Of Oaths.
Of the Negro Trade and Slavery.
Conclusion.
ADVERTISEMENT.
A Monsieur Price,
TRANSLATION. To Dr. Price, London.
APPENDIX,
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE TESTAMENT, c.
TABLES.
OBSERVATIONS.
REMARK, by the Translator.
No. II. Table of the Produce of each Sum of 100 Livres, bequeathed by the Testator, from one hundred to five hundred Years.
No. VI. Table of the Disposition of the 4th Sum, amounting to 29,782,761,461 liv. 13 sous.

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